Will make a prediction that this doesn't save any money but does increase mental health problems and anxiety.

JPpickardje.bsky.socialOct 18, 2024 6:54am

Liz Kendall will press ahead with £1.3bn in annual cuts to sickness benefits announced by the Tories, FT has learned Labour will retain contentious changes to “work capability assessment” that were introduced last year by Rishi Sunak www.ft.com/content/7888...

UK ministers to stick by Tory plan for £1.3bn of cuts to sickness benefits

Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall is likely to anger disability rights activists with her stance

Anxiety is stoked by those implying that assessing capability will result in injustices. Friends who conduct such assessments say all claimants seen are found to be unfit for work. The fakers/shirkers don’t turn up & lose their benefit. If deserving cases fear to attend, blame the commentators

And in the end, wasn't that the point.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

This is a Labour government?

Disappointing from them to say the least… 😰

Ahh, but at least Labour have painted a sad-clown face on the government’s performative cruelty.

ChAnGe!

I wish the Government would focus on where the money is. It's not in benefits and sickness. These people have next to nothing and risk losing what they have. The money is with those that already have it.

I will be tapping the sign labelled "NHS MH services should be able to charge the DWP for the workload the DWP creates to abolish this false economy penny pinching" forever...

That's the point. Punishing people for 'weakness'.